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soutache

[ soo-tash; French soo-tash ]

noun

  1. a narrow braid, commonly of mohair, silk, or rayon, used for trimming.


soutache

/ ːˈæʃ /

noun

  1. a narrow braid used as a decorative trimming
“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012
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yvlog History and Origins

Origin of soutache1

1855–60; < French: braid of a hussar's shako < Hungarian á flat braid for trimming
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yvlog History and Origins

Origin of soutache1

C19: from French, from Hungarian sujtas
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The gold-cord soutache embroidery that, at first glance, gave tuxedos, track suits and jumpsuits a bold, bandleader feel created skeleton-like outlines on their wearers.

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And so you will wear that soutache embroidery and like it.

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In a Virginia courthouse, such desperation was laid bare in the form of  glazed linen and soutache embroidery.

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"So far as they are concerned the soutache could be crimson and the yoke green, and if the price was right they'd buy it anyhow."

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Indeed, I devoted the sole article the Yankees let fall from my two workboxes—a bunch of soutache—to the work.

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